\"Factfiles\" is a sub-series of \"Bookworms\" with a non-fiction angle, providing factual information for students who are not so much interested in fiction.

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him. The figure approaching

\"The designs created in the post-war period for experimental and temporary prefabricated houses have given way to today\'s functional residences, which are more elegant, more practical and more respectful of the environment. This new book displays the many uses and applications of this fascinating architectural speciality.

The little old lady is back! Martha Andersson and the League of Pensioners have left behind their dreary care home in Stockholm and headed for the bright lights of Las Vegas. This is their opportunity for a new lease of life and they plan to make the most of it. But before long they are up to their old tricks and with ingenious tactics, a pair of false teeth and a wheelchair each, they plot to outwit

Eminent yoga teachers Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor explore essential lessons from The Bhagavad Gita to reveal a practical guide for living in today\'s complex world. The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most influential and widely recognized ancient texts in Indian epic literature. Through the telling of the story and its many different philosophical teachings, the text provides deep insight into how

After more than 20 years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun (of The Notebook) is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate to win back his wife Jane\'s heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him.again. Despite the shining example of Allie and Noah\'s marriage, Wilson is himself a man unable to easily express his emotions.

Being a blood spatter analyst who hates the sight of blood has always made Dexter\'s work for the Miami PD tough. But it means he\'s very neat when it comes to his out-of-hours hobby: murder. Of course, the fact Dexter only kills bad people helps too. Now Dex is facing a disturbing situation. He\'s used to blood at work, and blood when he\'s out with the dark passenger (the voice that guides him on

The legendary relationships guide that mothers recommend to their daughters, friends give as gifts and brothers steal from their sisters, MEN ARE FROM MARS AND WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS is inarguably the definitive book on having a happy relationship. \'A treasure\', \'a bible\' and \'an heirloom\' are some of the words used to describe the book that has saved countless relationships and improved innumerable

Festive fun and sparkling stickers! This activity book is jam-packed with things to make and do, puzzles and lots, lots more!

One of the most critically acclaimed memoirs ever written. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics\' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. Lorna sage\'s outstanding childhood and adolescence brings to life her eccentric family and bizarre upbringing in rural Wales. The period is

Over 40 years ago, a group of five Englishmen - and one wayward American - rewrote the rules of comedy. MONTY PYTHON\'S FLYING CIRCUS, an unheralded, previously unseen half-hour show of sketches, hilarities, inanities and animations, first appeared on the BBC late one night in 1969. Its impact has been felt on the world ever since. From its humble beginnings, it blossomed into the most influential

At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English

In The Illustrated Mum, Wilson introduces us to Dolphin, a young girl living in the wake of her tattooed mother Marigold\'s manic depression. With her older sister, Star, on the brink of adulthood and facing the traumas of adolescence, and her mum sin king further and further into her illness, Dol has no-one to turn to when the constant bullying at school causes her to withdraw into her own world,

In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament marked by an institutionalised oppression that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the subjugated writers with whom he quickly

Wenn die große Liebe verloren scheint... Der 91-jährige Ira steht nach einem schweren Unfall an der Schwelle des Todes. Nur die Erinnerungen an seine verstorbene Frau Ruth halten ihn am Leben. Währenddessen kämpfen Sophia und Luke, ein junges Paar, um ihre Liebe. Sie sind so verschieden, dass eine gemeinsame Zukunft kaum vorstellbar ist. Können sich die beiden Generationen gegenseitig retten? Nach

Die Szene ist Jerusalem zur Zeit der Kreuzzüge. Spannungsreich treffen die drei Weltreligionen Christentum, Judentum und Islam aufeinander. Inmitten eines dramatischen Geschehens um die Rettung seiner Tochter durch einen christlichen Ordensritter, den seinerseits der Sultan vor dem Tod bewahrt hat, steht Nathan der Weise als ruhender Pol der Vernunft, Aufklärung und Toleranz. In der berühmten Ringparabel

A New York Times #1 Bestseller A New York Times and Washington Post notable book, and one of the Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage\'s best books of the year Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel—a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan—from the award-winning,

Erscheinungsjahr: 2010Gewicht: 180 gr / Abmessung: 19 cmVon Müller, HertaDie Geschichte von einer, die wegging, ohne anzukommen. Irene, vom \"Diktator aus dem andern Land\" verjagt, findet sich in Deutschland wieder als Fremde. Im neuen Land stehen den Namen Dinge gegenüber, die nicht zu ihnen passen wollen, die nichts gemein haben mit den Wünschen aus der Ferne.Nach ihrer Ausreise aus dem Rumänien

Hans Castrop geplanter Kurzbesuch in Davos wird zum siebenjährigen Aufenthalt, und Thomas Manns Novellenplan wächst zu einem der gewaltigen Werke der Weltliteratur: Ein eindringliches Porträt der europäischen Gesellschaft vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Der Textabdruck folgt der Erstausgabe von 1924. In der Textfassung der Großen kommentierten Frankfurter Ausgabe (GKFA), mit Daten zu Leben und Werk.